The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural AustraliaThe Vision Splendid seeks to restore rural Australia to a central place in Australian history by showing how it has shaped Australian culture. It focuses on the culture of work and leisure and the changing conceptions of the Bush in the Australian mind from the late eighteenth century onwards. It maps, for the first time, the development of a set of cultural values and institutions in nineteenth-century rural Australia. |
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Page 37
... station to station in the locality . On some stations the boundary riders now patrolled on bicycles , although attempts to use them for droving were pronounced failures : bicycle tyres punctured easily in rough terrain , delaying the ...
... station to station in the locality . On some stations the boundary riders now patrolled on bicycles , although attempts to use them for droving were pronounced failures : bicycle tyres punctured easily in rough terrain , delaying the ...
Page 82
... stations like Wellshot and Bowen Downs carried numbers over 300,000.35 These large sheep stations tended mostly to be located in central Queensland and the far western area of New South Wales . Large cattle properties also became more ...
... stations like Wellshot and Bowen Downs carried numbers over 300,000.35 These large sheep stations tended mostly to be located in central Queensland and the far western area of New South Wales . Large cattle properties also became more ...
Page 239
... station women to chat on the pedal wireless . Traditional forms of recreation and relaxation persisted on stations and properties in the inter - war years . Owners , managers , jackeroos and book- keepers gathered in drawing rooms in ...
... station women to chat on the pedal wireless . Traditional forms of recreation and relaxation persisted on stations and properties in the inter - war years . Owners , managers , jackeroos and book- keepers gathered in drawing rooms in ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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